Shandor Weiss, ND One of the main principles of naturopathic medicine is Tolle Causam. To treat the cause a doctor has to find the cause … or causes. There is always a cause, and the cause can always be found, and the cause is always different than the diagnosis of...
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Daylight Saving Time: Detrimental to our Health?
Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO With spring fast approaching, I’m already dreading the shock of switching back to Daylight Saving Time (DST). This leads me to ponder why we still bother switching the clocks like this. I can never remember when we do it and which way we are...
Improving Estrogen Dominance With Food and Herbal Medicine
Jillian Stansbury, ND Estrogen dominance is extremely common in the general U.S. population and is associated with the discomforts of PMS, the pathologies of breast cysts, ovarian cysts and uterine fibroids, as well as contributory to the emergence of hormone-related...
Homeopathic Treatment of Environmental Sensitivities
Today many patients seek help for environmental sensitivities. This is true for adult patients as well as for children. In addition, many consider that toxicity is partly responsible for the increase in childhood developmental and cognitive disorders. This is not just...
Health Concerns of Factory Farmed Foods
Jacqueline Carboni, NMD Like all biological molecules, hormones are dependent on enzymes and their vitamin and mineral cofactors for activation and synthesis, and are often modified or regulated within conjugation pathways in the liver. Unfortunately, with modern...
Nutrient Levels in Organic vs. Conventional Foods
Laryn Callaway, ND The current climate surrounding food and food choices in our culture is intense. Buzzwords abound: Sustainable. Healthy. Organic. Food miles. Local. Natural. In season. On the one hand, awareness and thoughtful consideration about our foods’ origins...
Toxic Chemical Contamination in Natural Products
Rick Liva RPh, ND The reality of this industry is that some commonly used botanical extracts and other raw materials used to make natural products have high residual levels of potentially harmful toxic chemicals. Most of us don't realize that these chemicals may exist...
Dicentra spp: Remembering a Forgotten Medicine
Eric Yarnell, ND, and Lauren Russel, ND Dicentra formosa (western or Pacific bleeding heart) and Dicentra canadensis (turkey corn) were once well-known herbal remedies, but have fallen into obscurity. Their potential as anticancer remedies, as well as topical and...
The Eclectic Triphasic Medical System (ETMS)
Dicken Weatherby, ND and Donald R. Yance, CN, MH, RH(AHG) Whenever we treat a person with cancer, or with any disease for that matter, we must first approach the root-base or source. Every stream on Earth has a source, every plant has a root, and every person has a...
The Patient-Physician Connection
Robert Van Horlick, ND While volumes have been written on the subject of cancer, I hope my perspective and experience can add to others’ perspectives, and perhaps this will increase the effectiveness of treatments that will help those in need. With that in mind, I...